mall head, and short ears give it a ferocious look” (6). When its time for the bears to reproduce, the male approaches the female. The males have many mates in their lifetime. When the females are pregnant, they dig a den in which they stay until after pregnancy for a while with the bears can survive the cold. The mothers live off their body fat to make milk and live since they cannot leave the den (WWF 2). The mother actually spends a period of three months in the den while pregnant. The cubs, after birth, spend three years before they go out on their own into the ice world. Males do not do anything with cubs only mothers do (National Park Service). Polar Bears stay in certain places in the Arctic Circle. They live near coasts since their main food is seals. They usually migrate south in the winter and back in the summer (WWF 1). Five nations, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and the Soviet Union, got together and decided that they were going to find out the status on how many bears are still left. What they found was that the once “invincible bear” would go extinct in a matter of ten years if nothing was done to protect them (Larsen 5). The nations thought the bears moved around the North Pole, but they generally stay in the same area during their life. The Soviets had protected their own polar bears since 1956. They believed they had 5,000 to 10,000 bears, though didn’t know thousands of them were being hunted and killed each winter. Everyone was in shock when they found out how many bears there were actually (8). When the nations found out their dilemma they wanted to find more information on the polar bear. They went out and tried to tag the bears which was hard cause they were so giant. Tranquilizers barely worked cause they animals were so big. They had to get a ship and hoist the bears in and tag them. After they released the bears a year later they found out that 32 out of 103 bears were kill...
